With current 13,000 vote lead by PPP Granger coalition says recount results not credible

With wednesday updated recount numbers projecting a significant lead for the opposition, the APNU+AFC late wednesday evening sent out a press release calling the recount results not credible. According to this paper’s latest analysis of the numbers coming out of the recount exercise, 84 percent of ballot boxes have been counted so far, amounting to 369,770 votes for the General Elections. This number is 105,819 votes shy of the current total of votes from the original count, 475,589. At present, GECOM holds a pair of declarations for each of the 10 regions. Those are being held “in abeyance”. With the People’s Progressive Party currently leading the APNU+AFC coalition by 13,050 votes via recount, this means that the coalition would have to secure 12.3 percent of that 105,819 to catch up to the PPP, with the opposition gaining no more votes. And if the coalition were to emerge as the winner, in keeping with the previous declaration, it would have to also secure the majority of the remaining 87.7 percent or 92,769 to secure the 7,501 lead it enjoyed over the PPP according to the previous declaration. That lead that the coalition enjoyed in the declarations currently in abeyance came from the 58,826 vote ‘win’ of Region Four, handed to them by the region’s Returning Officer Clairmont Mingo in tabulations that this paper has revealed as being pervasively fraudulent. In a statement published late wednesday night discussing developments at the recount, the coalition put forward its clearest statement yet on how it would treat the final outcome of the recount: “Any results emanating from this process cannot be considered credible because of the high incidence of fraud.” The party referred to a statement purported to have been made by the PPP/ C’s Anil Nandlall, that “once a fraud has been committed, it nullifies or voids the entire process.” The party said that it expects the PPP/C not to shift the goal post and that it will stick to this position. (Kaieteur News)